Reflections on Our Class

With everything finally reaching an end, now is the time for a more thoughtful reflection.  I can't believe everything I have learned since September.  When Darryl asked us if we knew what a web 2.0 tool was, I might as well have been floating around in a Google cloud.  I was a Google Doc waiting to happen, or a Prezi emerging from one project and zooming onto the next.  It is amazing how much there was to digest in two short classes.  Although I have often felt perpetually two steps behind the pace, I made it to the finish line.  I am glad that I will have the summer to sit back, experiment and try on all these tools we have been introduced to for the past six months.  I am grateful for the opportunity to have taken these courses, and feel that the knowledge I have gained will serve me well in my professional development.  And blogging....who would have guessed that I would love it!  I am not sure if others benefited from my blog (I realize that at times I whine!), but writing for me is a catharsis that frees me from stress and cleanses my spirit--a form of meditation.  I have decided to keep blogging, but I am not sure if I will blog for myself or with my students.  Maybe I will endeavor to keep up with both!  On the last day of school, a substitute teacher, Jen, came to tell us she accepted a position teaching English in Thailand.  What a great opportunity for her, but also for the Compass Program as well, because she will be blogging about it for the next year.  Without this class, perhaps I would not have been as excited about her blog.  Truthfully, I would not have really understood what a blog even was.  My blogging experience was limited to a minute exposure in the movie Julie and Julia watching her post her blogs.  But all that has changed,  and I hope I will continue to soak in all the information my brain will allow me to absorb.  Have a great summer, see you in the fall.